Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

A little experiment =]

#mastoart

A possibly related phenomenon is called crown shyness – certain species of trees will very politely avoid overshadowing each other in a forest canopy, leaving gaps between each others' branches.

Mostly trees of the same species will do this, but different species of tree have been observed doing this too.

Again, no one's entirely sure how the trees do this, and some botanists are probably arguing about it somewhere right now.

We know the lizard and cry with glee. You know the lizard and dance with pride. The lizard hears you but does not moan.

Uh spyro are you okay? #PS4Share

Been thinking ‘bout them c h a r r lately. So here are some studies of one of my dudes. Actually extremely happy about that foot study. I want to draw more cat monsters so I’m offering a small markdown on any commission that features charr in it! #GW2fanart #mastoart

Seattle folks, don't rely on GMaps when driving around today. Take roads you are familiar with that don't have steep hills. If you do start sliding, remember not to lock your brakes.
- Safety snowfox wants to keep you safe.

inferring spelling from phonetic feature sequences zoomed along the timeseries axis. (basically, smooshing and stretching the sound of the word and getting the neural network to try to spell out the sound)

The sky is made of light. The tree is made of light. We are all made of light and it's just so just perfect.

Charles Preston runs a free Black History and Black Authors archive hosted on Google Drive and curated with 2$ donations. After receiving a C&D, Charles has decided to close the archive. It will stay up until the end of February 2019

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bz011IF2Pu9TUWIxVWxybGJ1Ync

National Weather Service update on the upcoming storm (9:20am PST Feb 7th):
https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=WAZ556&warncounty=WAC033&firewxzone=WAZ657&local_place1=2%20Miles%20S%20Redmond%20WA&product1=Winter+Storm+Watch&lat=47.6456&lon=-122.1283

TLDR: Expect snow accumulations of 5-10" falling mostly Friday night into Saturday morning, where strong winds (15-30 MPH with 40MPH gusts) will result in blizzard conditions.

Good news: The forecast temperature dropped enough that most precipitation should fall as snow instead of freezing rain (which would have guaranteed significant power outages).

Suggestion to prep for things ahead of time:

Turn off your home's breakers (or individual rooms with the switches) and see what kinda food you're able to make, entertainment you're able to have, and if you can stay reasonably warm with blankets and other passive heating devices (or that you have wood to burn if you have a chimney).

This will help you identify gaps in your electrical outage preparation.

Some pointed questions:
- Can your oven run without electricity?
- Can your stove top run without electricity?
- Do you need a blender, dishwasher, electric coffee maker, toaster, or other wall-outlet-powered device in the course of your everyday life? Can you replace it with a non-electric equivalent temporarily (dishes by hand, toasting over the stove top, etc)?
- How often are you going to have to open your fridge to feed yourself?
- Do you have battery backups to charge your phone off of?

This BIG male Pileated Woodpecker that visited us yesterday is very tolerant of a small female Downy Woodpecker pecking at the same suet block.

Strangest types of files to find taking up the entire space of a 64gb micro sd card found in the street (in ascending order):

1) backup.tar.gz
2) summer_2008.iso
3) MOV_20130120_camera2.mp4
4) RAND.BIN
5) reamde
6) basilisk_cryptosat_opt.cnf